Chapter 19.5 Diversity of fungi Flashcards
What have the fungi?
The fungi don’t have chlorophyll but they get their food by absorbing their environment and they don’t have roots and leaves.
What have the plants?
The plants contain chlorophyll and photosynthesize, they have roots, leaves.
A tough polysaccharide that is also found in the shells of insects and their close relatives.
Chitin
The bodies of multicellular fungi are made of long strands called:
Hyphae
Is an underground network of hyphae.
Mycelium
Is a reproductive structure of a fungus that grows above ground. Mushrooms are one type of:
Fruiting body
Tell me the 3 parts of the fungi:
Hyphae, mycelium and fruiting body
Or chytrids, are the smallest and simplest group of fungi. They are mostly aquatic, and their spores have flagella, which help propel them through the water.
Primitive fungi
Yeasts, certain molds such as Penicillium, and morels and truffles which many people consider delicious to eat are all:
Sac fungi
Range from the molds you see on spoiled foods to fungi used to ferment certain foods such as soy sauce.
Bread molds
Are mutualistic partnerships between fungi and the roots of certain plants.
Mycorrhizae
Get their name because their fruiting bodies are club-shaped.
Club fungi
Spore-forming structures at the tips of their hyphae.
Sporangia
Tell me 1 characteristics of the sac fungi:
Morels and truffles are multicellular sac fungi.
Tell me 1 characteristic of the bread molds:
Mycorrhizae belong to this group.
Tell me 1 characteristics of the club fungi:
Include mushrooms, puffballs and shelf fungi.
